Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

Mysterious heaps of stones dot these otherworldly woods.

Nestled in an unassuming residential area, this "forbidden forest" is rumored to spirit away those who dare to enter.

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

Guerilla gardeners reclaimed this abandoned railroad land literally putting down roots.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.